9-letter words containing f, e, a, s, t, l
- fractiles — Plural form of fractile.
- frailties — Plural form of frailty.
- gatefolds — Plural form of gatefold.
- half rest — a rest equal in time value to a half note.
- half step — Music. semitone.
- half-step — Music. semitone.
- halftimes — Plural form of halftime.
- halftones — Plural form of halftone.
- latensify — to increase the developability of (the latent image on a film or plate) after exposure.
- leaf rust — a disease, especially of cereals and other grasses, characterized by rust-colored pustules of spores on the affected leaf blades and sheaths and caused by any of several rust fungi.
- leaf site — A machine that merely originates and reads Usenet news or mail, and does not relay any third-party traffic. Often uttered in a critical tone; when the ratio of leaf sites to backbone, rib, and other relay sites gets too high, the network tends to develop bottlenecks. Compare backbone site, rib site.
- leaf spot — a limited, often circular, discolored, diseased area on a leaf, usually including a central region of necrosis.
- leafstalk — petiole (def 1).
- leftwards — Also, leftwards. toward or on the left.
- lifeboats — Plural form of lifeboat.
- liftgates — Plural form of liftgate.
- masterful — dominating; self-willed; imperious.
- mews flat — a flat or apartment situated in a yard or street lined by buildings originally used as stables but now often converted into dwellings
- pantofles — a slipper.
- past life — previous incarnation
- petaflops — (unit) 10^15 flops or 1000 teraflops. As with flops, the term ends in S in both the singular and plural as the S stands for seconds. The first computer to perform one petaflops was recorded in June 2008. By June 2012 there were 20.
- rijstafel — an assortment of Indonesian side dishes accompanied by rice
- safelight — a darkroom light with a filter that transmits only those rays of the spectrum to which films, printing paper, etc., are not sensitive.
- salt beef — beef that has been preserved in salt
- salt-free — containing or involving no salt
- scatheful — causing harm or injury
- self-hate — to dislike intensely or passionately; feel extreme aversion for or extreme hostility toward; detest: to hate the enemy; to hate bigotry.
- self-mate — a move that will cause a player's king to be mated within a certain number of subsequent moves.
- self-talk — motivational thoughts, affirmations
- self-want — to feel a need or a desire for; wish for: to want one's dinner; always wanting something new.
- shaftless — lacking a shaft
- shiftable — able or designed to be shifted, changed, or removed: shiftable furniture.
- slashfest — a film, animated film, or computer game in which victims are killed bloodily using blades
- sootflake — a smudge or speck of soot
- stall-fed — (of animals) confined to and fed in a stall, especially for fattening.
- sulfatase — any of a class of enzymes that catalyze the hydrolysis of sulfuric acid esters.
- sulfatize — to convert into a sulfate, as by the roasting of ores.
- sulfonate — an ester or salt derived from a sulfonic acid.
- sulfurate — to combine, treat, or impregnate with sulfur, the fumes of burning sulfur, etc.
- sweetleaf — a shrub or small tree, Symplocos tinctoria, of the eastern coast of the U.S., having lance-shaped leaves, yellowish, fragrant flowers, and orange or brown fruit.
- teraflops — a measure of computer speed, equal to one trillion floating-point operations per second.
- ultrasafe — extremely safe
- wasterful — Lb obsolete wasteful.
- welfarist — the set of attitudes and policies characterizing or tending toward the establishment of a welfare state.
- westfalen — German name of Westphalia.